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‘vnStat’ is a wonderful tool for monitoring your bandwidth usage. This article will show you how to use vnStat effectively. For bonus points, we’ll also look at ‘vnstati’ so you can make pretty graphs to visualize your bandwidth usage. This article shouldn’t take too long! ‘vnStat‘ stands for ‘view network statistics’ and has been around … Continue reading “‘vnStat’ A Tool For Monitoring Your Bandwidth Usage”
When you take a digital picture, the resulting file contains potentially personal information. It is known as ‘Exif‘ and it contains sensitive information. This article will explain how to sanitize Exif data to avoid leaking your personal information. If this article looks familiar, I’ve previously authored an article on this subject. It’s at the old … Continue reading “How To: Sanitize Exif Data From Your Digital Images For Privacy Sake”
One of the things I hope to avoid on this site is lists and rankings. I hope to be creative enough to avoid what other sites do. You shouldn’t expect this site to have articles like, “The Top 10 Distros for Low-end Computers!” It’d be great if I were creative enough to not end up … Continue reading “My Three Favorite Text Editors, a Meaningless List”
I recently wrote a similar article, illustrating how you can use ‘apt-mark’ to prevent application updates. While that was handy, it only applied to those who use APT as their package manager. It offered nothing of value to those who use YUM. This article will explain how you can prevent application updates with ‘yum-versionlock’. You … Continue reading “Prevent Application Updates With ‘YUM-VERSIONLOCK’”
People have a variety of reasons why they want to disable and remove Snap apps from Ubuntu. It’s relatively easy to disable Snaps and this article shows you how. Let’s start with the basics. What is a Snap? It’s another form of packaging software and Canonical’s Snapcraft page describes it like this: Snaps are app … Continue reading “Disable Ubuntu Snaps”
Sometimes old tools are the best, or at least adequate. In this case, we’re talking about HardInfo – a tool that hasn’t been updated in about 7 years, but still does a great job. This is Linux. There are a ton of great applications to detect and list your hardware. Most of them are CLI. … Continue reading “Graphically Examine Hardware Info With HardInfo”
Hey, I’m KGIII (known by many names, including David) and this is my site. I’m a retired mathematician and a fan of the Linux-based operating systems. This project started off as a brief attempt to put my numerous Linux notes online. That was quite a while ago and on another domain. The search engines didn’t … Continue reading “About Me”
